skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite several negative comments, I thought the author did a great job of explaining and playing with set theory (which, as can be seen by the response, is good fun.)

I do take some issue with intepreting set theory's membership relation in terms of the tree child relation, though.

First, the child relation is presumably transitive, whilst set membership is not. (The subset relation is transitive. Presumably it is 'direct child' relation we have in mind here.)

Second, as seen in the third diagram, nodes don't map well to set entities, because the same entity can be a member of distinct sets, but these would count as distinct nodes on some trees. E.g., in the diagram both leaf nodes are distinct, but they both represent the empty set, and hence should be identical. So the identity of sets is not preserved in the tree encoding.

But this is picky — a lovely read. Thanks author!
WNBA has a bonafide star for the first time ever - a full-on household name! my daughter who isn’t even a basketball fan made me get tickets when she played the Mystics. If she sticks with playing in Europe WNBA ratings next year will be comparable to synchronized swimming at the Olympics (I hope this doesn’t happen and WNBA can build of this momentum).
Streaming services have been introducing ads in their lower paid tiers. It will come eventually.
It's called pragmatism. It's one level above the law for practical purposes. It dictates when to apply the law in the international setting.
I have 15 YOE and I am a very qualified senior candidate, at least IMO.

There is no world where I would take an interview that I had to fly out and stay at a hotel on my own dime. That would 100% sound like some sort of scam job to me.
Doesn't seem like your resume or approach in applying to open positions is your problem. It seems like you're not connecting well with the interviewers in some way.
Here is what I would do to even approach this

1. Note all the things you like about your current IDE vis-a-vis your development workflow. 5 major Lists will emerge : While Code, While Compiling, While Running, Debugging & Test.

2. Set up a current project you are working on in the IDE in neovim.

3. Take some minutes in the day how much cognitive load it takes to switch and use each one of the things in #1. Then ask yourself the 1million $$$$ Question:

- Does adding a bit of complexity give you an advantage? -

This will probably teach you more about your own current IDE and improvements you could do there than neovim
Putin was very clear the last 10 times too :) About western tanks, military jets, etc.

It's all bullshit. Out of all the things Putin won't do - nuking NATO is the first.
I am a heavy user of Brave and I would love for you to expand on what you mean.

For those curious, here is the open-code repo of all Chromium changes Brave applies. I have not read every commit myself, so any flagging would be appreciated: https://github.com/brave/brave-core
I used to be heavy Anki user but I find the setup a little hard to follow.

The image generation can do with ComfyUI integration. This will expand the illustration options beyond stable diffusion. It will also allow for more options within stable diffusion too.

I might raise a PR tomorrow if I have the time.
Supposedly while you chew your back is straight though, isn't it?
And yet Japan has a loneliness crisis so severe they created a government minister position to address it.
Oh, well if you're allowed to do that, then it's ok i guess.
Comparing OSS Photo Organizers
The current hiring situation is so broken. Because of AI and automation.

One developer job on LinkedIn - 1100 applicants, 1000+ don’t even live in the right region, so clearly it’s automated and they’re not reading even basic requirements.

Next time - video interviews all the way through. Any hint of AI in the interview process, they’re done. If a different person shows up for the first day of the job, they’re done.
> Tbh, how does this work through?

Depends on what you mean by “this”. What, the forum itself? That should be pretty self-explanatory. IIRC you can read without being signed in, but to post, you need to register. Should be a link at least on some frontpage, or it's probably reachable from the “Log in” link on every forum page.

Or did you mean getting the source? I'm not sure. Could well be the links on the frontpage are wildly out of date; don't those SourceForge pages talk about Python or something? AFAICR, it's been written in Java for a couple of decades now... As I said, get in touch with Scott.

But of course it makes most sense to try it out first, to see if it's what you want.
Advertising ruined the UX of Google’s search page, but I would argue the exact opposite when it comes to the web itself.

The real thing that ruined the open web and viability of search was, ironically, when Google killed display advertising by cutting Adsense payouts to near zero.

Now publishers monetize via the much more sinister “affiliate” marketing. You know, when you search for “Best [X]” and get assaulted with 1,000 listicles packed with affiliate links for junk the author has never even seen in person.

At least in the old system, you knew that an ad was an ad! Now the content itself is corrupted to the core.
What really baffles me is how Taiwans leadership can’t see the US endgame with the CHIPs act and the Chinese sanctions. The US government wants to steal TSMC by using subterfuge, sheer force and malice, while making Taiwan paying for it by refusing the revenue of selling advanced chips to China.
Not even TSMC should feel safe even if they successfully relocate themselves to the US.
Buccaneering has a long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries and as TikTok shows the US has no qualms in preaching free commerce, stable legal rules and all that bullshit to everyone else, while doing the most egregious mercantilist stuff without even an once of shame.
I write most of my code in Emacs, even C# because I find VS* to be a major pain in the ass. But I've always used IDEs to write Java, first Eclipse and lately IntelliJ. They are simply nicer to work in than anything else I've tried, except Smalltalk and Lisp machines. I have a feeling it came as part of the cultural heritage from Smalltalk.
All the California is doomed rubbish was always rubbish.

Texas probably has stopped growing and if people calculated their tax rates no one would move to Texas.
USSR alone lost 5.

We can make excuses all day long, some are even true, but the hard cold facts remain - russian navy sucks.
Why wouldn't this mistake be addressed in a security hotfix then? Apple has to pick a lane - this is either intended behavior being enabled against user's wishes, or unintended behavior that compromises the security and privacy of iPhone owners.
These people are just suffering from ODD right now. They can't handle a world-view that makes them bad or evil, and so they will do anything they can to make you look evil/crazy/unhinged/depressed or bitter.
Thanks for providing a concrete model to work with. Compared to GPT3.5, the number you're looking for is ~0.04%. I pointed out the napkin math because 0.00000001% was so obviously wrong even at a glance that it was hurting your claim.

And, yes, purpose-built models definitely have their place even with the advent of LLMs. I'm happy to see more people working on that sort of thing.
Decoupling Without Direction
I presume you are aware that Taiwan is in fact occupied by China now?

The Chinese who ran from the communist revolution, invaded Taiwan,
setup their own military dictatorship, and they were extremely
brutal to the natives Taiwanese. (Sadly this has been their lot
through several occupations by different entities.)

During more recently history they have been polishing more democratic
values and life for the natives has improved.

But for Taiwan to be free, in any proper sense, the Chinese occupiers
must leave.
I think the poster was saying, "This isn't just my own, lone opinion. Many others seem to feel the same way."

And that becomes a problem for the business, despite your own stat about the Christmas numbers.
This was actually something that was tried with music in the early 90s, by Philips and Sony with the CD-i. The musician/producer Todd Rundgren made an album specifically for this format called "No World Order" where the songs were all broken up into "modules", so to speak, and the user could configure them however they'd like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_World_Order
> the quality of the hotel and the restaurants they were taken to and the seniority of the people who joined for dinner were all very important indicators.

I maybe once misinterpreted this. I was flattered to be having dinner with the well-regarded co-founder and two other highly-ranked people, but I thought the nice hotel and the fancy restaurant was just their everyday extravagant lifestyle.

Despite being obviously unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the affluent lifestyle conventions, I did get the offer. Had I known that the nice restaurant and VIPs might be specifically to say that they valued me, I would've been more likely to accept the offer.
Not only withdraw, but post publicly about said company. That's so beyond the pale it's gotta be a joke
If only they could crowd source/gpg web of trust such a designation.

We solved this for email by aggregating spam/not spam ratings from tons of recipients. It’d be great if we could do that here.
Recently bought an ipad mini 6th gen and I notice that although it seems to have a USB-C charge port, if you use a regular old USB-C to USB-A cable and wall-wart it only charges to 75%. You have to use the apple-supplied USB-C (at both ends) cable to charge to 100%. Not sure what is going on there exactly but it seems like malicious compliance.
What company have you hired developers for?
> the frameworks and the actual project.

This.

e.g. Android studio has a great preview feature for composable which makes it a joy to build them. It gives you an option to run just see the live effects of updating code for that composable in (a) IDE (b) Emulator (c) Device.
School bully might have a gun but if he uses it then it's game over for him too. And russia behaves like a bully. Any step back emboldens them. What might have been true at the height of cold war might not be true now. Befriending the opponent failed. Now it's time to finish the job and actually win the cold war. NATO already knows this and preparations have begun. There's very little chance to avoid the direct conflict unless russia collapses harder than it did when soviet union fell. This time they won't be keeping their nukes or whatever's left of them.
Why do people ask “please” to an LLM is beyond me. It’s a machine, it does not care about politeness! Treat it as a machine ffs.
Eating anything with a spoon is way harder, I tested it. Essentially gravity forces you to eat with the spoon in a position that's not the one you are used to.
Yeah most of those services aren't as popular as Netflix so they have to compete for eyeballs.
Also for Apple/Amazon TV is a minor side business.
The show you listed for HBO are largely HBO shows developed for HBO some arguably back when watching HBO under a cable subscription was the norm. Breaking Bad was made for tv first.
So these guys [1] mention something similar where HDMI from a TV is backfeeding 40-50 volts into a cable box. This could be because of many things from electrical outlet wiring to power supply issues on the monitor to a bad component on the monitor giving a high voltage, or the monitor is badly grounded, etc, etc.

I read the original thread but it doesn't look like you've measured the voltage at the HDMI port wrt motherboard ground. I think we're assuming it's 5 volts, but it could be higher, and it could have shorted (or weakened) a component on your motherboard. And that would explain why a 100 ohm resistor didn't give a meaningful voltage drop.

If you need an isolation solution, Amazon sells a 50ft fiber optic one way HDMI cable [2]. The thing I don't know is if there's any actual copper to provide power over the link. There are other options which transmit the HDMI signal over pure multimode fiber as well [3].

Or you can go with a DP KVM, since you're on L1T, they sell a few DP models. I have one I purchased from L1T, and I like it a lot.

Definitely though I would check out the outlets to make sure they were wired correctly. Incorrectly wired outlets because someone tried to DIY it in the US is absolutely a problem.

[1] https://www.avsforum.com/threads/hdmi-cable-backfeeding-volt...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-FURUI-HDCP2-2-18Gbps-Subsampling...

[3] https://fibercommand.com/products/8k-fiber-plugs?gQT=1
That’s okay if your goal is to get an answer to a straightforward question. If, however, your goal is to research a topic, or to find sources for something, or any other scenario where your aim is to read actual web pages, then you want web search, not AI answers. These are two different use cases.
GitHub Streak Checker
There’s so much low effort, low hanging fruit that Google could do to improve results, that I just assume they've realized those things are unprofitable for them.

I mean just de-ranking any article with an affiliate link alone would skyrocket the relevance of what content you surface on search.

The problem for Google is, they’re incentivized to make the results worse than the SERP ads. If the organic results are too good, nobody would ever click the ads. And they basically gutted the 3rd party Adsense ecosystem, so they no longer monetize off third party sites. That to me, was the dumbest decision in company history — basically leading to the dilemma they’re in now. They squeezed all the profit in the short term while killing the open web in the long term.

You can’t have a product that purports to help people search the open web…while simultaneously trying to sabotage people from organically clicking on the open web. It’s pure idiocy.

The answer is staring them right in the face with Youtube, who faces zero threat to their dominance. Turns out if you just surface the best stuff and rev-share the ad money with the content creators (like they used to do with blogs via Adsense) then 1) the creators keep producing good stuff 2) the product stays useful and 3) importantly the monopoly profits continue minting!
My question: how about we just don't do this? Can we all agree the "governments depending on ActiveX controls for important things" thing was a terrible idea and just not? Smart cards would work fine, and there's even standards for it!

The answer: nope, it's almost certainly time for round 2. Plus some forced facial recognition for good measure.

Like I said, I hope the number on those days starts pretty high.
ratings are down for all broadcast and cable TV broadly it isn't that damning of NBA specifically, and certainly isn't a strong supporting fact that NBA games themselves are "unwatchable".

you are right, the ratings are down but not for all the sports, I think NBA specifically has an issue they need to resolve. and my words were harsh but I spoke my mind so-to-speak - I am losing interest watching games where it is not uncommon to see more than half the shots taken be 3’s…

I agree with both your points A and B. the article does mention hand-checking outside the box etc which totally makes sense. If I was Silver I would

- SHORTEN the season. I would make Christmas opening night of the league. If NFL wants to take over everything NBA needs to either admit defeat or fight a bit, opening on Christmas would help both with making season shorter and making it more attractive.

- Both your A and B points

- Move 3-pt line back to 27+ feet
It’s used by every single big co and a lot of smaller ones too. It just doesn’t scale well when you need to hire hundreds of engineers every year. I never actually seen public job postings bring in many leads that actually convert to offers. It’s one of the worst channels which is why candidates are getting such crap experience going that route
I’m in UX with 20+ years of experience, including FAANG. I’ve been looking for new opportunities for a majority of the year and I have found that publishing blogs and case studies gets me emails from recruiters. If I try to reach out, 9 times out of 10 I get no response.
Thanks for the interest! The idea was to fully automate the process of creating illustrations for the failed cards of the day based on few shot prompting alone, indeed adding support for external API like ComfyUI would help a lot. Maybe especially for finetunes on specific subjets I guess?
I understand the reasoning behind this law, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea in the long term. Had the EU passed a similar law a decade ago, they would be stuck on mini or micro USB today. There will probably be some plug that is superior to USB-C at some point. How will the EU switch to it? Only the big players (Apple, Samsung, Sony, etc) have the power to lobby for a change.

If the goal of this law is to reduce electronic waste, it seems like a better solution would be to tax electronic waste. That would discourage other kinds of e-waste (like those adapters for micro SD cards) while still letting manufacturers to choose other connectors for niche use cases. It would also make it possible for companies to move to a new standard without waiting for the EU to allow it.
> I hope market economy should do the rest

Like it resulted in standardising on USB C? Oh wait, the EU had to force everyone.

> A reason to not demand USB-PD, such law would prevent upgrades to later better version of that thing

The EU has got you covered, there are provisions on updating the mandated standard.
"Dark Google" is dark as in bad, but not as in obfuscated. They can be seen and observed in places like LinkedIn where they discuss their plans in the open.

But I don't think Google is part of them, or their slave. I think Google is our last line of defense.

True, it's not very effective; more like the knight in Monty Python's Sacred Grail. Still, when we lose Google, we'll have nothing else.
Oh I was being sarcastic lol. Obviously the Russians would lie about this.
The Case for More H1B Visas
This is a bad example.

Google hired some VM specialists who worked out of their Aarhus office. I think they used their research for Android.

I don't know if Google still does this, but we have (or had) a large number of people working on CS problems which they could use working at our universities they could attract.
Because some people can't deal with C style syntax, I guess? I can't blame them though, you would have to hold a gun to my head to get me to code in Python.
So you are saying that Google should provide responses that are more likely to frustrate its users? ;)
Positive reading: cannot afford the time (off from their current employer, away from family, …)
Because for some weird reason it tends to work.
The “fundamental difference” is that it’s better integrated with your device and can backup the internal state of your device and the apps.

Even if you use Microsoft Office or GSuite and save using the standard file picker, you can save to iCloud. iCloud has a native app for Windows and plug ins on Windows to sync browser bookmarks for Chrome, Edge and Firefox

And the alternative people are proposing are four or five self hosted solutions?
Is a binary search involved in this "gambling system"?
> any SaaS that cannot violate data privacy by design

And that is hosted in a jurisdiction that forces them to take it seriously, e.g. Mistral in France that has to comply with GDPR and any AI and privacy regulations out of the EU.
> The family knows more about the situation that online commenters do

Do they though? I wouldn't say my mom would know anything, or even understand matters at hand. On the contrary, random HN folk could feasibly imagine themselves in my shoes.
If your voltage matches one of the PD levels they work okay but many common voltages like 12v usually end up being very charger dependent. I've got one of the 12v pd triggers that on 9/10 of the PD enabled charges I've used just drops to 9v.
NATO is the Red Cross ?
I'll be honest, I don't understand the example in this article -- it doesn't seem to be evidence of the thesis/complaint. The two dark mode screenshots are basically the same and, at a glance, I trust the Google one more because it's showing me a snippet of the authoritative source, Apple.com. Beyond that, there's no ads in the Google screenshot, which was a huge part of the thesis statement.
Easy, you have a USB-C port on the top of your phone and the proprietary port on the bottom, duh.

- EU regulators
Do you assume laws cannot be updated?
> International politics is not a war of all against all. It's more like a pre-state society governed by informal norms and expectations and personal relationships between the elites.

If someone violates the expectations but is not strong enough to defend his violation then expectations about behaviors of others towards him might be freely violated as well without destroying whole arrangement between conforming parties.
I was hiring manager for 3 positions about 4 months ago and the amount of fake applications out there was mind boggling to me. I would say 90% were either entirely fake or had the exact same generated ai text. It got so bad that we started only looking at resumes that had a working LinkedIn link.

Also after so many bad resumes I started being very forgiving for the ones that didn't fully match the job requirements if they had something in them that made it seem like a real person, e.g. a personal hobby section. I think a lot of people discourage writing that but I argue it makes you stand out in an ocean of fake and copy pasted junk.
And that is because of policy choices by Signal.
Considering the number of stupid laws that haven’t been updated, and the conflicting interests every time an update is proposed, I answer that it can be safely assumed the law will never be updated in most circumstances.
Dark Google isn't a new thing. Isn't even an Internet thing. It's the very same cancerous growth on society that's been ruining every single communication medium we invented, the disease that's the answer to "why X sucks?" for any X.

Advertising industry.

I wish I knew what it would take for people to stop treating the unholy blend of marketing communications as respectable occupation, and consider it for what it is: a guild of liars ruining lives and societies.
Xscreensaver still has a 3D pipes.

Just stop running that archaic corporate OS...
Ah, you're Polish (or Ukrainian?). Now I get it.
There are simpler ways besides the standard social media, namely: LinkedIn, StackOverflow, GitHub. Among these, LinkedIn ought to be sufficient for 99% of candidates. It has landed me all of my new jobs over the last decade.
Or hand out business cards at meetups.
Well, they shut down two music services. The first was Songza, which they bought. They then took everything Songza had- namely their awesome mood-based, artisanally curated playlists- and put it into Google Play Music. Then they seemingly let go of everyone who maintained the playlists and never updated them again? Those playlists on Songza were _excellent_ and the Snoop Dog collabs were just delightful.

Not sure how Google internally makes decision but I imagine it works entirely quarter by quarter trying to measure individual Impact with no overarching vision or direction.
Praying to God that this means I can get a USB-C Kindle Oasis at some point in my life.
I remember Hikaru saying such things too, on livestreams (twitch or kick). More than once.
I'm always confused when I see someone talking about laws and regulations as something you can't change.

Care to explain why? If in the land of cable freedoms they come up with something noticeably better, they can just change the law to allow it.

Am I missing something?
What is better, from your experience?

I'm a happy Emacs user, but think having more options is great, and I've delved into some Common Lisp and certainly am eager to learn more. So I'm thrilled to see Lem continue to be developed.